Michael Crichton Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

  Michael Crichton

  Book, Writing, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

  Michael Crichton

  Literature, Belief, Scientist

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin's Lecture at the California Institute of Technology, January 17, 2003.

• I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

  Michael Crichton

  Blood, Drawing, Literature

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.25, Vintage

• They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Literature, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

  Michael Crichton

  Technology, Reality, Ordinary

  "Crichton goes out of time to send off old millennium" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. November 10, 1999.

• Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

  Michael Crichton

  Literature, Matter, Way

  "Consensus Science and the Peer Review" by Jorge R. Barrio, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. April 28, 2009.

• The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

  Michael Crichton

  Years, Single Life, Literature

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Decision, Literature

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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